Fracking, nuclear power are vampire technologies

Demanding a Renewable Energy Revolution

These two vampire technologies suck the energy out of
our planet while permanently poisoning our air, water, food and
livelihoods.

The human movements fighting them have been largely separate over the years.

No more.

In the wake of Fukushima, the global campaign to bury
atomic power has gained enormous strength. All Japan’s 54 reactors
remain shut. Germany is amping up its renewable energy generation
with a goal of 80 percent or more by 2050. Four U.S. reactors under
construction are far over budget and behind schedule. Five old ones have
closed in the last two years.

The issues are familiar. Fracking in particular
poisons our water and spews out huge quantities of lethal radiation.
Ironically, in Ohio and elsewhere, the seismic instability it creates threatens atomic reactors still in operation.

In California, the burgeoning movement to shut the two remaining nukes at Diablo Canyon has run parallel with the powerful grassroots opposition to fracking. In both cases, water issues in this drought-plagued state have moved front and center.

Now the gap is being bridged. In a passionate
hour-long dialog on saving our Earth, long-time anti-fracking activist
David Braun speaks with Linda Seeley of the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace, the legendary grassroots group that has fought Diablo Canyon for more than four decades.

In their Solartopian radio conversation,
and in a call to convene this coming spring, we see the seeds of an
intertwined alliance that can help save our Earth:
http://prn.fm/solartopia-green-power-wellness-hour-02-03-15/

Anything that
actually produces energy on demand is demonized. We can't maintain our
civilization on renewable energy. And renewable energy cannot be
sustained without significant taxpayer subsidies. I hope the public and
the politicians soon wake up to the realities of where our energy really
comes from

We can't maintain our
civilization on the business as usual approach, one which is based on
quarterly earning reports and a few decades to pay off loaned funds,
rather a deep look into our children's futures. Billions of people are
stuck with this which has become almost a religion. Wake up. Nothing can
sustain a population that insists on having it all, including all the
children that they have always craved and a human population that could
skyrocket above today's 7.24-billion. Humans can't prevail on a dead
planet even if the human ego tells us that we can overcome even that.

Wrong on all pts.
Using existing renewable energy sources to power our society is doable.
What's lacking is the political will to do it. If the existing carbon
and radioactive elements based energy producers had to compete on a true
level playing field they'd all be closed up.

brycenuc wrote:"We
can't maintain our civilization on renewable energy. And renewable
energy cannot be sustained without significant taxpayer subsidies."On
what do you base these absurd assumptions? You are notorious for making
unsubstantiated comments like these. You apparently just make up BS and
write it as comments here.If you are expected to be taken the least bit seriously, how about explain where you came up with your claims?

You do understand...
brycenuc... that oil and coal will run out in other words in
NONRENEWABLE? Which means it will run out. And then what?Your statement that we can't maintain our civilization on renewable energy is oxymoronic.

Fracking and Nukes are just two of the unholy trio of legal planet-poisoners
- the third is pesticide spraying, on farms (especially with GMO crops
of course), forests (where nice mixtures of poisons are applied) and
roads - ALL FOR WEED CONTROL... cheap for corporations, OTT expensive
for US.

The extraction and
chemical Industries are causing criminal havoc on this planet. The day
of reckoning has arrived for Earth's life forms. The facts are that the
present system we have created is unsustainable and deadly.

Support organizations
that work to ban fracking. Write your congresspeople to rein in or
eliminate oil company subsidies, adopt instead of bearing children.
There is hope to avoid the loss of most humans, but it will require hard
work and sacrifice. Are we strong enough to accept that? To think
strong but shrinking economy instead of perpetual growth?

I'm a veteran of the
late 60s-1970s "first renewable energy revolution" -- which was wrecked
by Reagan and his cronies. I'll be 79 in a few weeks, and I'm still
working for solar, wind, tidal and other natural power sources. I would
love to see fossil fuels (including anti-life extraction procedures like
fracking) and all nuclear reactors out of business before I die. YOU
who are young must work for this! Please! I have grandchildren I want
them to have a world to live in.

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